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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Lots of pics of Sororitas Weapons,

Sure hope they will make that one a little less... irrelevant, because it does look good.

 Yodhrin wrote:
This whole process is an exercise in rebuilding trust for GW...

Rebuilding trust? WTF? For what? 'Cause their online team made some jokes as Sister's player's expense that they (predictably) took personally?

Can't wait for your reaction to the online team making a joke at NZ players' expense and how you'll take it as a boss .

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Can't wait for your reaction to the online team making a joke at NZ players' expense and how you'll take it as a boss .

I'm not from NZ.

But nice try at the school yard banter.

Being British jokes at ones own expense are totally normal and the foundation of decades of solid comedy! Plus half the game is making fun of your opponents army


Besides my army - not going to let any of you sas or joke about my armies or anything!!!

 Overread wrote:
Being British jokes at ones own expense are totally normal and the foundation of decades of solid comedy! Plus half the game is making fun of your opponents army

Besides my army - not going to let any of you sas or joke about my armies or anything!!!

This is serious business Overread! We can't have jokes now, especially not about super-duper-serious Space Nuns Military forces!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Being British jokes at ones own expense are totally normal and the foundation of decades of solid comedy! Plus half the game is making fun of your opponents army

Besides my army - not going to let any of you sas or joke about my armies or anything!!!

This is serious business Overread! We can't have jokes now, especially not about super-duper-serious Space Nuns Military forces!

mm what about orks can we have ork jokes?
I don't collect them so they aren't one of my armies and they are certainly not space nuns with a military ideology.

Unless - wait - orks are always getting into fights right and their gods are Gork and Mork who are basically patrons of battle and brawling!! And hold on Orks aren't even exactly male as they are sort of spawned by spores


OMG - Orks are indeed SPACE ALIEN ARMY NUNS!

Bloodmaster wrote:

That's not nostalgia. The one I visited was way bigger, had at least 1 huge display( I think there was also another one), games you could join, a huge silver screen showing an animated Björn in action and a lot more people had been there. Ok, there was less staff, I remember only 3: Fat Bloke,a sculptor whose name I forgot who did BFG ships and Andy Chambers (complete with sideburns). IRRC also 1 or 2 Heavy Metal guys. GW was also a lot smaller then, I don't know if Forgeworld and Black Library already existed. And we stayed there all day long and would have stayed longer if it wouldn't had closed. And the sales area was tiny compared to the rest of the location.

Yeah, the old Games Days were about gaming. They were a very different beasty. Kirby 'improved' the format by stripping out all of the extra guff so that the day could be focused on the part that we all enjoy the most - buying Citadel Miniatures!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Being British jokes at ones own expense are totally normal and the foundation of decades of solid comedy! Plus half the game is making fun of your opponents army

Besides my army - not going to let any of you sas or joke about my armies or anything!!!

This is serious business Overread! We can't have jokes now, especially not about super-duper-serious Space Nuns Military forces!

Those BDSM nuns are not to be trifled with. They will just spank your bare bottom ass. Also pray to the emperor that they don´t notice your boner otherwise you´ll be getting into real deep trouble.

 insaniak wrote:

Bloodmaster wrote:

That's not nostalgia. The one I visited was way bigger, had at least 1 huge display( I think there was also another one), games you could join, a huge silver screen showing an animated Björn in action and a lot more people had been there. Ok, there was less staff, I remember only 3: Fat Bloke,a sculptor whose name I forgot who did BFG ships and Andy Chambers (complete with sideburns). IRRC also 1 or 2 Heavy Metal guys. GW was also a lot smaller then, I don't know if Forgeworld and Black Library already existed. And we stayed there all day long and would have stayed longer if it wouldn't had closed. And the sales area was tiny compared to the rest of the location.

Yeah, the old Games Days were about gaming. They were a very different beasty. Kirby 'improved' the format by stripping out all of the extra guff so that the day could be focused on the part that we all enjoy the most - buying Citadel Miniatures!

Exactly. The biggest area have been average tournament tables and the sales area. I'm not again travelling 250 km and spending 75 euros on tickets for the family for this travesty.

The white knights can defend this all they want, it sucked. And tell me, what was better on Sunday apart from more GD entries?

Latter day games days were rubbish. Nice day out I guess, but no previews, little studio interaction.

But Warhammerfest is an improvement. Live painting demos, previews, good chances to speak with the designers, multiple seminars, tournaments, licensed partner demos. All sorts.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Latter day games days were rubbish. Nice day out I guess, but no previews, little studio interaction..

It did all take a bit of a nosedive when GW implemented their 'don't tell anyone about new releases more than a week in advance' policy. So yes, against that metric the Warhammer Fest is probably an improvement. It still seems somewhat light-on compared to the older Games Days, though.

I’ve enjoyed the ones I’ve been to (think I missed this years).

Not something I’d attend both days for, outside of Loot Sharing purchases (do that on the Saturday, nice and early. Whizz the gubbins back to hotel room).

But they’re not as rammed as Games Day Of Old. That allows me to get round to see what I want, more or less when I want. You don’t feel guilty having a ten minute chat with the designers. You don’t feel rushed or crowded (and that’s me with mild social anxiety that doesn’t like being even slightly jostled).

There is room for improvement of course. There always is. Couple of unique participation games would be welcome. Add extra tables for pick games (advertise as 1,500 or whatever, so peeps know what to bring). There’s hall at the U.K. venue (provided they stay there, natch) that weren’t part of the ones I’ve been to, so logistics aside, there is room for expansion.

But as others have said on the previous page - each store contributing isn’t practical anymore, not on the previous scale.

Still an enjoyable enough event as it is though. At the risk of sounding snobby, pretentious and a Richard, it feels a bit more ‘grown up’ than Games Days used to. Mind you, I’m a lot more grown up than I was, so that’ll have played a part.


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Also, working Games Day sucks a lot of the fun out of it.

Still got my Cadia staff t-short though. 15 years old that tee.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I'm not from NZ.

Doesn't stop you from complaining about it every time though .

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I'm not from NZ.

Doesn't stop you from complaining about it every time though .

He's Australian - big difference although both nations love their sheep.....

 insaniak wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Latter day games days were rubbish. Nice day out I guess, but no previews, little studio interaction..

It did all take a bit of a nosedive when GW implemented their 'don't tell anyone about new releases more than a week in advance' policy. So yes, against that metric the Warhammer Fest is probably an improvement. It still seems somewhat light-on compared to the older Games Days, though.

Thing is back in the old days we'd wait months for a release; now we really only have a week for any kind of release from GW. So I can well understand their marketing shift toward generally focusing on the next month or two only. Plus it means that when they do leak or give us info its almost 100% confirmed. A lot of companies make the mistake (Looking at you former Spartan Games) of releasing info too early and then either never delivering on the date or having so many set backs that it gets pushed into a year or more away. That in itself only annoys customers . Whilst we might not get all the info we want, we at least get solid info from gW.

I think it was a great event, the seminars were good, Adam Troke gave away a lot of new Lotr rules and was generally a cool guy.
That being said next time I wouldn't take the weekend ticket again, there wasn't that much going on on sunday.
I think they missed the opportunity to do an exclusive preview/Onboxing of the Space Wolves Codex. In fact the rules guy didn't tell you more about it than WarCom said, while at the same time you could watch Youtubers reading the whole thing.

Golden Daemon and Tournament moderation was a little weak. Basically they simply read the names and that was it. Would've been interesting to at least hear why they chose that model, what made it stand out or what list did the tournament winner bring.

I think the nadir of the old Games Days was where the biggest display was the new Skaven that had come out like 2 weeks prior. That was it.

The best, at least back in the day, might've been the GD where they revealed not only the first Power Armour Grey Knights (and the Grey Knight range for Codex: Daemon Hunters) but the Enforcers for Necromunda!

There is a topic, please stick to it.

Sorry if this was brought up already, but has there been any news about the Fires of Cyraxus or Talons of the Emperor Imperial Armours?

 Enginseer Kalashnikov wrote:
Sorry if this was brought up already, but has there been any news about the Fires of Cyraxus or Talons of the Emperor Imperial Armours?

Well Talons has been bumped in favour of the next HH book, so at this point I think Fires is just dead and buried since they apparently wanted to throw out all the fluff as well as all the rules, in other words start from scratch. Far more likely after Talons they move on to replacing all the stuff they've culled recently with eleventy-bajillion Primaris bits & bobs.

Bloodmaster wrote:

Then there was the Golden Demon area. When we left at 3 the cabinets haven't exactly be bristling with models and while there have been a few stunning pieces, there where way more that I could have painted way better (and I'm not talking about young bloods). Dude, which day did you visit. The cabinets were full, and with a high standard. I'am willing to bet on that you can't do better than 3/4 of the entries.

Irrelevant. You don't need to eat dog gak to know it tastes bad.

 Grimtuff wrote:

Bloodmaster wrote:

Then there was the Golden Demon area. When we left at 3 the cabinets haven't exactly be bristling with models and while there have been a few stunning pieces, there where way more that I could have painted way better (and I'm not talking about young bloods). Dude, which day did you visit. The cabinets were full, and with a high standard. I'am willing to bet on that you can't do better than 3/4 of the entries.

Irrelevant. You don't need to eat dog gak to know it tastes bad.

My dog insists that is simply a matter of personal preferences and personal taste

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Enginseer Kalashnikov wrote:
Sorry if this was brought up already, but has there been any news about the Fires of Cyraxus or Talons of the Emperor Imperial Armours?

Well Talons has been bumped in favour of the next HH book, so at this point I think Fires is just dead and buried since they apparently wanted to throw out all the fluff as well as all the rules, in other words start from scratch. Far more likely after Talons they move on to replacing all the stuff they've culled recently with eleventy-bajillion Primaris bits & bobs.

Not that I dont believe you, but where did you hear this info about talons?
Another reason I hate FW. Takes them forever to release rules for 8th.